Environmental destruction not avoided with the Sustainable Development Goals

Yiwen Zeng (), Sean Maxwell, Rebecca K. Runting, Oscar Venter, James E. M. Watson and L. Roman Carrasco ()
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Yiwen Zeng: National University of Singapore
Sean Maxwell: University of Queensland
Rebecca K. Runting: The University of Melbourne
Oscar Venter: University of Northern British Columbia
James E. M. Watson: University of Queensland

Nature Sustainability, 2020, vol. 3, issue 10, 795-798

Abstract: Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were designed to reconcile environmental protection with socioeconomic development. Here, we compare SDG indicators to a suite of external measures, showing that while most countries are progressing well towards environmental SDGs, this has little relationship with actual biodiversity conservation, and instead better represents socioeconomic development. If this continues, the SDGs will likely serve as a smokescreen for further environmental destruction throughout the decade.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-0555-0

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